- Chapter four and it's finally time to get illustrating.
This is when things get exciting.
Illustrator offers five line tools.
One draws a straight line, another draws a smooth arc.
This one draws a spiral, and these last two
draw a couple of different kinds of grits.
What I love about these tools is that
they split the difference between ease of use
and supreme power.
Your job is to draw one basic line after another.
In a business, we call these primitives.
But just as in real life,
primitives lead to more complex organisms.
One object builds on another.
And before you know it you end up with
something that's not a line at all.
Let's start with the simplest tools that Illustrator offers
and then we'll build from there.